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...China confrontation took place while the Impeccable was sailing 75 miles south of China's newest sub base, Yulin, at the southern tip of Hainan. The U.S. vessel carries sophisticated surveillance equipment that was in use - Chinese sailors used poles in an effort to snag the Impeccable's towed acoustic array sonars, which dangle beneath the vessel. The gear was most likely being used to try to detect the movements of Chinese subs in and out of Yulin, where Beijing's new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack subs have recently been spotted...
...after pictures of them crossing against traffic were broadcast on the news. One woman spent 10 days in jail for contesting her fine and was eventually pressured to resign from her job. "If someone is caught jaywalking in front of strangers, they don't feel bad," says Yang Yulin, media officer for the Shanghai Civilization Committee (SCC), the government organization behind the crusade. "But if everyone at the office finds out, they learn a lesson...
...Shaanxi officials say they regretted transferring the rights almost immediately. "Workers in pig slaughterhouses became oil-company bosses," says Wang Dengji, mayor of Yulin city in the center of the oil-bearing area. "They caused serious pollution and serious waste." There was another problem: China deems oil a national resource. The State Council in 1999 declared the independent wells illegal and ordered a "rectification...
...peasants were fairly compensated based on their oil income, which he suggests they under-reported to escape taxes. "They say they earned more, and we say prove it?and pay the tax on it," he asserts, adding that only 10% of investors rejected the government's compensation offer. Yulin mayor Wang denies that anybody is complaining about anything these days. "There was no conflict with private oil enterprises," says Wang, because "most were happy with the compensation." The city's Communist Party vice secretary told TIME that the reclaimed wells now provide one-third of the town's revenue...
...cheesy impersonations (Gable, wisely, is kept offstage) and no easy potshots at Hollywood. The film's producer (Stacy Keach) is a trucking magnate who confesses he knows little about movies. Yet he's not the usual power-hungry philistine but a sensitive, level-headed decision maker. The director (Harris Yulin, as a veiled John Huston) has to spout some of Miller's windiest metaphors, but his gruff philosophizing is dead serious. The only real figures of ridicule are the pompous husband-and-wife acting coaches (modeled on Lee and Paula Strasberg) who hold Kitty in their sway. But even those...